What are we talking about when we talk about rivers?
Readings & discussion with Franziska Füchsl (Austria) and Faruk Šehić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Moderation: Florian L. Arnold & Udo Eberl
Reading: Dr Christian Katzschmann (Ulm Theatre)
Book table: Aegis
Free admission
Rivers play a special role in the work of Austrian author Franziska Füchsl as well as in the texts of Bosnian author Faruk Šehić and are among the central motifs of her writing. Both the river Müh, to which Füchsl's new book is dedicated, and the Una from Šehić's novel, which was recently translated into German, are tributaries of the Danube - the thematic axis of the International Danube Festival Ulm/Neu-Ulm. At the same time, the prose of both authors is strongly characterised by lyrical forms, which is why they are also guests of the Ulm Poetry Summer.
Füchsl and Šehić will first introduce themselves to the audience in separate readings, followed by a discussion moderated by Udo Eberl and Florian L. Arnold, authors and cultural actors who live and work on the Ulm and Neu-Ulm sections of the long Danube bank.
„Interwoven with a playful gesture Vixen Geology and history. Her text feels its way to the edges of what can be said - to where rivers get lost and the homeland disintegrates into metonymies.“ Jury of the Nature writing Award 2025
„Protagonist of the novel by Šehić tells of the brutality of war in drastic words and contrasts his traumatic memories with the force and beauty of nature in the image of the indifferently flowing Una.“ Sabine Tholund
In co-operation with: Ulm Poetry Summer
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